In the opening scene of Wong Kar Wai's 1990 film "Days of Being Wild," Leslie Cheung asks Maggie Cheung to "look at my watch with me for one minute," and then tells her, "This minute is an eternity." Why do I take photographs? What do I want to express in them? I just want to capture the light that "was truly there." I mainly photograph "still lifes," but rather than accurately depicting the motifs themselves, I strive every day to capture the elusive qualities of "light" and "time." It may be like trying to hear something that is definitely there but cannot be grasped, a sound beyond the audible range. However, this print quietly speaks. Because the light I saw was definitely "there."

Strangely enough, I feel that it is easier to capture such meaningful and lovely light with something manufactured more than half a century ago than with today's overly high-performance lenses. What I want to capture is not physical evidence, but the fluctuations of light and time that I "might have seen." The Robert paper I have been using to print with my heart lately is a smooth, inexpensive printing paper, but I believe it can express even the subtle fluctuations of my heart.